Right click My computer - select Manage select Disk Management from within Storage (That's in my currently booted Win2K, and XP should be much the same)
You should (after a while) see the right hand panel split into 2 sections, the top one showing the current partitions The bottom one showing a graphic of the physical drives to the left, and the partitions on it to the right Right click in the partitions space of the new drive - create as you want - and format (quick) as you want Then reboot (probably twice as the OS decides it has new devices) Then right click on each new NTFS partition in the windows explorer - and set the indexing off for all subdirectories and files (or not ) as you wish. You can also set partition labels (Note what it calls logical drive is what I was calling secondary partitions) JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:15 AM Subject: Re: Outpost.com | Seagate 3.5 PATA Intern al Hard Drive > When I opened the message, I found that James Button had written: > > > The manage facility is part of the OS and is available all the time > > the OS is running - It will allow you to partition the drive, and > > 'format' it for use within windows > > You said earlier "I'd advise that when you create the NTFS? Partitions > on it (My Computer Manage Storage) you limit the partitions to about > 100Gb....." > > I just didn't see any "manage storage" option anywhere in "My > Computer". > > That's why I asked. > > Thanks, > > Jim > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
